Copy-holder.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

7 A. R. DEARBORN.

COPY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

A TTOHNE YS.

UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

COPY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,873, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed September 11, 1902. Serial No. 122,942. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER RHoDoL- PHUS DEARBORN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, haveinvented a new and Improved Copy-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device intended especially for use in connection with typewriter cabinets to hold the copy in position to be conveniently read by the operator.

It involves certain novel features of const ruction with respect to the copy-holder per seand novel features of arrangement relatively to the type-writer table and cabinet.

This specification is an'exact description of one example of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the views.

Figure l is a perspective view showing the invention in use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the copy-holder. Fig. 3 is a section taken longitudinally through a part of the cabinet, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

In Fig. 1, a indicates the table on which the type-writer is intended to be rested.

b is the cabinet or desk at one side of the table, and c a case of pigeon-holes adapted to contain stationery and other type-writer supplies. It is to a structure such as this that my invention is particularly adapted, although it may be used in other connections.

The copy-holder comprises a shank or bodypart (Z, terminating in three parallel fingers e, e, and 0 Preferably this structure is formed of a length of stout wire, and in this case the three fingers e, e, and e are formed each by a return-bend in the wire, such bends having their members laid closely together and the bends being extended in parallelism, as described.

runs of the fingers e and o to form the shank or body (Z, and in case the device is constructed of wire, as shown, the shank will then be made up of two parallel runs of wire, as illustrated.

In fitting this copy-holder to the cabinet The wire is continued from the outer illustrated in the drawings the shank d is placed slidably in a cavity 0', formed in the horizontal top 0 of the case a, so that the holder may be moved into its pocket almost completely out of view, as shown in Fig. 3, or when it is desired to use the copy-holder it may be drawn out, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which position the fingers will project over the table a, and the copy, as indicated in Fig. 1, may beheld directly in front of the operator. The extremity of the finger e is bent slightly upward, while the extremities of the fingers e and a are bent slightly downward, and the middle finger e is constructed a trifie longer than the other fingers, all of which is illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

f indicates a stop-pin which is placed in the top 0 of the cabinet or case 0 and extends across the pocket 0' thereof to limit the outward movement of the copy-holder.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all forms of the invention as may lie within the intent of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of a cabinet having a pocket therein, a copy-holder arranged to slide in said pocket, and means fastened in the cabinet and extending across the pocket to limit the outward movement of the copy-holder.

2. The combination of a cabinet having a pocket therein, a copy-holder formed of a length of wire having return-bends adapted to engage the copy, and a shank formed of two runs of wire spaced from each other, the copyholder sliding in the pocket, and a stop-pin located in the cabinet and extending across the pocket, the stop-pin bearing between the runs of wire forming the shank to limit the outward movement of the copy-holder.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses,

Witnesses:

W. H. HAYDEN, HILTON. 

